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Debugging Microsoft.com

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the belly-of-the-beast dept.

teslatug writes "Channel 9 has an interesting video interview with Chris St.Amand and Jeff Stucky who test and debug Microsoft.com. They reveal some of the big problems they used to face such as recycling processes every 5 minutes due to memory leaks and 32 bit limitations, and being unable to push more than 10 Mbits of data to their datacenters due to Windows' networking stack limitations."

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  1. Windowshades by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They had those bushleague limits while their bosses were telling corporate customers to throw away Unix for their network operations. With all the inhouse advantages (money, expertise, source code) of running Microsoft's own systems. What serious enterprise defects do you think MS astroturf is covering up these days? No wonder so many corporations have switched to Linux. Not only does the OS work better, and you get the source code to fix it when it doesn't, but it isn't backed by a giant spin machine pretending it isn't a toy.

    And no, TrollMods, this poll doesn't count as that: I'm not on any Linux marketing payroll, and what I say is actually true.

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  2. Re:Missing info... by ergo98 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look, the "busiest site on Earth" should be hosted on a farm of serious big iron and not x86i32. It shouldn't even be on x86i64.

    Right...."big iron". Give me a break. What does Google run on again?

    Dollar for dollar - which is what usually determines how much power ends up in the server room - a bunch of x86 boxes kick the ass out of "Big iron". The only people advocating big iron are desperate gray beards hiding in the computer room, fearing the wicked winds of change outside.

  3. Re:What the... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    fuck you blongs are awsom

  4. Re:An example of the advantages of the new windows by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    gaim isn't AIM. I'm talking about using the real, Windows-based MSN client that tells me "Service is unavailable, try again later". Go astroturf elsewhere.

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  5. get a life by drfrancky · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    how about stop bitchin about stupid players? VLC is good enought and have WM codecs
    no one noticed the bulshit about 10mbits to datacenter wich is not true. shame on you linux users. stop bitchin about windows and microsoft and get a life . you have your own OS of choice and it is good to focus on it only.